Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-06

business. He will be associated in bust
ness with Mr.. Black, who was formerly
the superintendent OF the Atlanta post
Office, the arm name being Harris &
Black.
A few days ago the Dade Coal Company
bought OF Judge James r. Brown, OF
Canton, and J. D. Thomas. OF Barlow
county, about 5000 acres OF what is
claimed to be as fine iron and manganese
property as there is anywhere lying in
| Cherokee and Barlow counties, on Stamp
creek. They pad tor the same something
over $4,000. This property was once
owned and operated upon by DR.. John w.
! Lewis, OF Canton, and at one time had as
many as three or more furnaces upon 1t
and paying well.
/ In Ocopee county last Saturday even
ing very angry cloud was seen rising
! from the west, indicative of a storm, but
| just before reaching Watkinsyilie it di-
| vided, one part OF it going on each side.
| Near John Robinson's. on the Athens
| road, about two miles from town, it was
/ almost water-spout, washing LAID Goa
siderably and doing other damage, but
| there was not much wind, On the other
side, toward Pennington, the wind was
pretty heavy, leyeling fences to the
ground and tearing up large trees by the
roots.
At Jefferson between IL and II O'Clock
| Thursday night fire broke out in Will
Hanson d Potts clothing store,
aud it was consumed In little
while, together with one dwelling
house on each side of 1t, Mrs. WOr-
sham's boarding house and large two
story house occupied by j. n. Ross and
j. A. Lyle. The house occupied by Ross
and Lyle vas insured. Mrs. Worsnam
and Williamson Il Potts, Ross and
Lyle themselves had no Insurance. The
amounts of the losses are not known, but
are heavy,
Col. c. Z. McCrory and Miss Susie A.
! Berry were married at Ellaville Wednes-
day. The attendants were w Z. Strange,
OF EIlaville, Miss Addie Davis, or Savan-
nan; Morgan McMIchael and Miss Kate
Williams; J. z. Williams and Miss Leila
Murphy. of Eliaville; J. p. Lumpkin,
Buena Vista, and Miss Theo. Phase, of
Darien; Claude Dixon, of Ellaville, and
Miss Lizzie Steel, Of Macon; A. j. Cleg-
horn, OF Macon. and Miss Addie Smith,
OF Eilaville. Rev. c. d. Adams pro-
nounced tue mystic words that made
them husband aud wife.
Tom Collins. wanted for murder in
Gwlnnett county, has just been arrested
Ia Mississippi. There is an indictment
against him for murder found several
years ago, but up to his capture his
whereabouts has been unknown TO the
officers. He killed James Hall with a
shovel, both of whom were living with
Judge T. NJ. Peoples at the time. They
were on opposite sides OF fence and got
to quarreling, when Collins pitched q
shovel at him, which he had wrenched
from the hands OF Halps wife, hitting
Hall in the temple and burying it in
his head several inches. the handle hav-
ing been broken leaving sharp edge.
A day or two days ago Sebe Miller,
laborer on the plantation of Mai. r. a.
Barron, was bound over to Macon Supe-
rior Court by W. p. Maxwell, for arson.
Miller was charged by jerks Mcdonald,
overseer for Maj. Barron, with setting
fire to the mule etOckade and fodder barn.
The nine mules that were IN the stock.
ade were saved, but the contents of the
barn were lost. About 10000 pounds of
fodder were destroyed. The fire was with
difficulty stayed from the corn crib, cot.
ton seed house and guano house, in which
was stored about fifteen tons OF fertili-
zers.. The fire occurred a week ago in
the.day time at noon. The prisoner was
unable to give the bond and was turned
over to Sheriff Gilmore.
News reached Augusta Friday from
thomson OF great excitement among the
superstiJiOus residents about a terrible
earthquake that IS predicted and plainly
written on an esq laid by a hen on Mrs.
McLane's place Wednesday morning. A
prominent merchant of Augusta, whose
family resides at Thomson, has been in
formed OF the peculiar prediction and has
written for the egg, which will be ex-
pressed TO him at once. He received a
letter from his sister. and she stated that
in beautiful capital letters the following
sentence is legible on the egg between the
she'll and the yolk: Terrible earthquake
on March 81 Many explanations Of the
writing have been heard, but the most
probable one is that the ben must have
swallowed pen. It is thought to be the
work of some person who desires little
amusement by causing excitement and
annoyance to nervous people in McDufie.
The spot where Gen. Walker fell in de-
Tense OF Atlanta, on July 30, 1854, is still
unmarked by any memorial, and soon
will be forgotten. The place where that
gallant soldier, Gen. Mcpherson, was
killed on the same day, is bonored by an
enduring monument erected by his fellow
soldiers. Recently Mr.. Root has visited
the old battlefield and found 1t impossible
70 locate the spot where Walker fell. A
correspondence with Hon. j. Is. Cumming,
Of Augusta, Gen. Walkers Adjutant Gen
eral, ensued, and mr. Cumming is soon
expected in Atlanta, when tae battlefield
will be revisited In company with several
prominent gentlemen who were in the
terrible engagement OF that day. The eX-
act place where Gen. Walker fell will be
designated, and some steps initiated look
ing to placing memorial there by Gen,
Walkers old comrades and the people of
Atlanta AMI Augusta; at the same time
taking care TO protect the monument to
Gen. Mcpherson, which is suffering so.
verely by the depredations of relic hum
ters.
Two passenger trains on the Western
and Atlantic railroad collided with great
l0rce At Marietta yesterday morning
about 2 O'Clock. Tne cause OF the acct
dent 10 not known. In the railroad yard,
however, it was said that the north
bound train expected TO meet
the south bound train at
smyrna, while the south bound
thought they would pass the north bound
at Marietta. The north bound reached
Marietta and started out for Smyrna just
as the south bound rolled in. The north
train was just getting up speed, while the
opposing train was skimming along
smoothly, The engineers did not see
each other until il was too late To stop.
They reversed their engines, however,
and applying the air brakes succeeded In
reducing the rate Of speed before they
struck. Both engineers managed to ee-
cape. One fireman escaped, but the other,
Frank Williams, an Atlanta boy, was